shadowiness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for shadowiness
Noun
  • The vagueness of the language left plenty of room for interpretation and anxiety.
    Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The book is padded full of the thin, present-tense prose beloved of young writers, who mistake its vagueness for urgency.
    Robert Rubsam, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The vessel was operating in international waters but that added to the murkiness of the legal justification.
    Emily Goodin, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Many technological challenges abound in the murkiness of natural language chatting.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The composition has many hallmarks of surrealism, including dream logic – the strange, flowing and often illogical progression of images reflecting the unpredictable nature of dreams – metamorphosis and psychic ambiguity.
    Sally Jane Brown, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The ambiguity of authorship is meant to unsettle the reading of the text.
    Lana Lin September 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Despite the political specificity of the family history unearthed here, the script presumes a level of profundity that’s just not there in the movie’s ponderous silences and woozy montages.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Lockwood says she’s often asked about her ability to toggle literary voice on a dime, ricocheting, like an elementary school PhD candidate, between potty humor and profundity.
    Eric Olson September 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As a result, the impenetrability of EU bureaucracies will continue to limit the United States’ ability to restructure transatlantic economic relations.
    JENNIFER KAVANAGH, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2025
  • This may be Riley’s attempt to portray the insularity and impenetrability of Ruth’s community, a faith so particular that even the reader is denied access to it.
    Hannah Gold, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • There’s some darkness in Jay Kelly, but the film feels incredibly joyous.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The room is just 10 square feet with just a tiny vent for daylight, but when night falls, it is consumed by complete darkness.
    Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025
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“Shadowiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shadowiness. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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